Are you living in a big city, which is crowded with people, feeling a bit suffocated with the furniture around you?
Do you find your monthly income, if you spend on shopping for each month according to the current city living standard , you hardly have much left over (if not needy)?
You have a small child, and every day cleaning/arranging the house alone takes a lot of time, you hardly have time for yourself?
You really want to: spend less time cleaning, spend less time shopping, spend less money, having a better living space?
If that’s the case, try practicing a minimalist lifestyle. Maybe it will be useful to you….
What is minimalism?
Minimalism is a lifestyle that originated in Japan. A minimalist lifestyle is a way of living that keeps things to a minimum. And with a life of less stuff, we can focus more on happiness.
This lifestyle creates a simple, neat living space. Life will also become simpler. People who follow this lifestyle will be minimalist from where they live, how they eat, how they spend, and their relationships. However, this does not mean that they live frugally.
To be able to practice spending with a minimalist lifestyle, you need to be aware and practice the followings:
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First, with minimalist lifestyle, you need to spend according to your “needs” not your “wants”:
You need to distinguish between your “needs” and “wants”. Today, with the abundance of goods, you can almost always have access to beautiful and convenient items, furniture, and clothes anywhere. Along with the great development of advertising technology, you may pay for many things according to “wants” instead of real “needs”. A new trending shirt, a stylish camera phone, luxury furniture, a branded bag…. And, you want all of them….
But after buying them, maybe you use them for a short time, then you throw them away, or maybe for a year (if you don’t clean them up), you don’t even remember you bought them. This is because you are shopping for a want, not a real need.
Needs are the things you you can’t manage without, such as food, clothes, learning tools, working…. Before spending money to buy anything, take a look at it, is it your real need? Try delaying 1 week to buy that item to see if it has any effect on you? If not, remove it from your shopping list.
Second, try rethinking your current lifestyle:
Are you spending too much? Are you looking to save money for yourself or for your children to go to school later?
Do you want to change your current lifestyle to achieve financial freedom? If you want, practice slowing down your shopping and spending only on things you need to live better for the future. You should look back at your lifestyle so far to adjust accordingly. We don’t have to live someone else’s life.
Take 1 example: You try to review your wardrobe, do you feel there are too many clothes and you spend a lot of time early in the morning choosing what to wear to the office? If so, try reducing your clothes to only about 10 sets (choose to buy good ones (brand name or not – but it should be good enough to wear confidently) and you like the best) can be varied enough for weekdays. Save time and save money on clothes, right?
Or, you should spend less time surfing Facebook to see if the person you hate is doing well? Or try to reduce the time to hunt for “sales” on sales apps…. These things affect your productivity, and your experience!
Third, to have a minimalist lifestyle: sell or give away things you no longer need:
Neat and empty house is the dream of many people to have a comfortable living space. Therefore, you do not need to keep items that have not been used for a long time. Sell them or give them to those who need them. Don’t turn your home into a warehouse. Prioritize your living space, because you will feel comfortable in a large space, not a tight space because of too many leftovers around you.
Fourth, to have a minimalist lifestyle, make a list of things to shop for so that you don’t overspend “in the mood”:
You can make a list of things to buy in your phone, so that when you go out, you only choose to buy the right things without “looking” at unnecessary things, especially when you will tend to buy too many things when in a bad mood. Take a regular look at your shopping list to see if there are any more items you can remove.
Fifth, give priority to enjoyable experiences:
Take a look at yourself and see what you need to experience to have a more “quality” life, for example: travel, learn to draw, learn to swim, learn to drive, study abroad, organize a family camping trip with children….Focusing on meaningful things, interesting experience will help you have a more multi-dimensional view in life, making life more colorful and less boring.
You will live a lighter and more comfortable life if you prioritize experience rather than making a lot of money every day and then buying too many things and then piling them up into a stuffy mess.
Conclusion
In fact, many people have followed this lifestyle and become richer both financially and personally. Hopefully the above information will be useful for you to reduce stress in your life, increase relaxation and happiness in your soul.
